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ALBERT WILLIAM BAGLEY, OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON.

CAR-STAKE.

v No, 834,702.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30, 1906.

Application filed July 18, 1-906, Serial No. 326,694.

This. invention relates, to car-stakes, and is.

particularly useful in connection with cars adaptedv for the transportation of logs, lumber, and the like, The object. of the invention is to provide a simple, strong, and durable stake which rigposition the load upon a flat or other car.

A further object of the invention is tov providea stake, which may be released fromv an upright position by means of a catch operated from'a side of the car opposite to that upon which the stake is pivoted,

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts to be more fully described hereinafter, and particularly point ed out in the claims. Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of one form of my invention, showing a part of the car in cross-section and an inoperative position of the stake in dotted outline. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same form of my invention. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of this form of the stake. Fig. dis a side elevation of a detail. Fig. '5 is a vertical cross-section of this form of the stake. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of another form of my invention. Fig. 7 is a front elevation of the same form and Fig Sis a bottom plan view of a railroad-car,showing stakes of my invention in position.

invention is especiall useful in connection with cars adapted for ogging purposes. The cars of this type resemble the ordinary fiat-cars and have side stakes which hold in position the piles of logs or lumber upon the cars. Difficulty is. often experienced in the unloading of these cars, which is accomplished by removing the stakes on one side and allowing the logs to roll from the car on that side, because it is difiicult to remove the stakes without danger to the operator. To avoid this danger, as well as to facilitate the which are pivotally mounted, so that they may swing outward. I prefer to use a .plurality of stakes along the side of the'car, which may be released from an upright posi tion by a catch at certain of the stakes operated by hand. These stakes are located between a pair of end stakes which should be handling of the lumber, I provide stakes sufiiciently rigid to hold the load in place after the center stakes have been released from the upright position. The end stakes, are so constructed that they may be unlatched by means of suitable apparatus from the opposite side of the car. Thus it will be understood that afterthe centrally-located stakes have been individually released from an upright position the operator may take a p.0- sition out of danger from the falling load and release the remaining end stakes from such a safe position, and thereby allow the load to slide from off the car. Both forms of the stakes I provide may be used in connection with the ordinary stakepockets now in general use for wooden or metal stakes, and thus there is. no necessity for providing special cars or specially-constructed pockets upon said car Referring more particularly to. the drawings, I make use of stake-pockets 1 of the ordinary form, mounted upon the side beams 2 of a flat-oar, or any other car for similar purposes, 'by means of U-bolts 3. stake-pocket is inserted a hollow hanger 4, approximately of the internal form of the pocket and having a, laterallydisposed flange 5 at the upper end, which prevents. the hanger from passing through the pocket. The end of the hanger 6 projects downwardly through the pocket and is provided with a recess 7, presenting an opening at the lower end of the hanger. The stake proper, 8., is preferably hollow in form, with openings 9 and 10 in the side, to cheapen the manufacture and decrease the weight. The stake has laterally-projecting end arms 11, separated a distance substantially equal to the width of the car-pocket and which fit closely on each side of the same when the stake is placed in position upon the end of the hanger, which rests within the pocket, as shown most clearly in Fig. 5. The stake is provided With a bail or U-shaped member 12, which is secured'to/ the end arms 11 by means of bolts 13,passing through the ends of the bail and the end arms.

The loop of the bail is located in the recess 7" I Within the at the end ofthe' hanger and is held in place an arm 27, projecting inwardly.

place by a smaller pin 15. By means of the bail 12 the stake 8 is pivotally mounted at the end of the hanger and may be swung about this. pivot into the downward position. (Shown in dotted outline at a, Fig. 1.) In this position the stake may swing freely and clear any obstacle against which it may strike while the car is in motion.

In order to hold the stakes which may be released from an upright position individually in that upright position, the hollow stake member 8 is provided with a latch 16, pivotally mounted in a stake by means of'apin 17. The latch has a shoulder 18, which is adapted to abut against the inner side of a top edge of the hanger, and thus hold the stake in an upright position, as shown most clearly in Fig.

6. H The latch has an end 19 projecting downwardly through an opening 20 in-a side of the stakeand by means of which the latch may be released from engagement with the hanger by knocking the end 19 upwardly. It will be understood that the stake is prevented from being turned inwardly beyond the edge of the car, as the lower end of the stake abut against the side of the car. r

The stakes which are adapted to be released from the opposite side of the car are not provided with the latch 16, but have in place thereof a bolt 21, passing transversely through the stake-body and prevented from passing through the opening 20'by means of a plate 22, inserted between the stake and the head of the nut which secures the bolt in place. The plate 22 has laterally-disposed ends adapted to rest against the sides of the stake and to hold the bolt securely in position and also to prevent its moving about in the opening 20, which is connected, by means of a slot 44, with an opening 10. The opposite end of the bolt, which extends inwardly beyond the stake through a suitable opening in the back wall thereof, has an eye 23, which is located near the floor of the car. Upon the floor of the car. a catch 24 is pivoted by means of a bolt 25. The catch 24 has at one extremity a hook 26, adapted to engage with the'eye 23 of the bolt 21, and at the other end When the hook of the catch is in engagement with the eye 23, the stake will be held in an upright positi'on and can only be released from that upright position by pivoting the catch about the bolt 25 to release the hook from engagement with the eye. p I p v I provide a vertical trigger 28, extending upwardly through an opening 29 in the bot- .tom of the car and having an arm 30 pivoted,

by means of a bolt 31, to the block 32, resting upon the floor of the car and upon which the catch 24 is mounted. The trigger 28 has a laterally-disposed arm 33 normally adjacent to the arm 27 of {the catch 24 and adapted to displace this to one side when the trigger is pivoted about the pivot-pin 31. When this takes place, the arm 27 is moved to one side, thereby disengaging the hook 26 from the eye 23 and permitting the stake 8 to fall outwardly and swing about the bail into an inverted position. The lower end 34 of the trigger 28 is provided with an opening 35, to which is secured the end of a helical spring 36, having the opposite end secured to the side of a car. This spring holds the trigger 28 in the normal position (shown in Fig. 4) with the arm 33 nearly in engagement with the arm 27 of the catch 24. A cord 37 is also secured to the end 34 of the trigger and extends longitudinally of the car-bottom 38 to the end of the trigger of a similar stake, to which it is also secured. It will be understood that a single cord may thus be used to operate any number of stakes which may be desired for use at the side of a car.

Beyond the last trigger to which the cord is secured it passes laterally about a roller 39 and is fastened near the center of a lever 40, having an end pivotally mounted upon the car-bottom and an end pivoted to a rod 41, extending transversely of the car and projecting therebeyond. At this end it terminates in a handle-ring 42, by means of which it may be operated. A guide-bar 43 is held in place over the lever and is secured upon the longitudinal floor-beams of the car. When it is desired to release the stakes, which are operated simultaneously, it is merely necessary to pull outwardly from the car upon the bar 41. This swings the lever 40 about its pivot on the car-bottom, and this in turn pulls upon the cord 37. The pull upon the cord 37 laterally displaces the triggers, which in turn simultaneously release all of the stakes from their upright positions. I

After the stakes have been released and it is desired to return them to an upright position it is merely necessary to swing each stake about the pivot-bail. When this is done, the eye 23 will slip into engagement with the hook 26, the rounded end of the hook allowing the eye to displace it to one side till the eye assumes a position in which the hook may enter into engagement with it. This position is a normal one, (shown most clearly in Fig. 3,) the springs 36 holding the triggers 28 and the catches 24.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A device of the class described, comprising a pocket, a hanger within said pocket,

and a stake pivotally mounted upon said .hanger and having a latch adapted to hold said stake in an u right osition.

2. A device 0 the c ass described, comprising a pocket, a hanger within said pocket, a stake resting upon said pocket and having a ivotal connection with said hanger, and a Patch adapted to hold said stake in an upright position.

3 A device of the class described, comprising a pocket, a hanger within said pocket and having an end projecting downwardly from said pocket, a stake resting upon said pocket and having abail pivoted upon said end of said hanger, and a latch adapted to hold said stake in an upright position.

4. A device of the class described, comprising a pocket, a hanger within said pocket,

aving-an end extending through said pocket, a stake resting upon said pocket and having a bail pivotally mounted upon said end, and a latch pivoted upon said stake and adapted to abut against said hanger to hold said stake upright.

5. A device of the class described, comprising a pocket, a hanger within said pocket, a hollow stake having an opening and pivotally mounted upon said hanger and resting upon said pocket, and a latch pivotally mounted within said stake and having a shoulder adapted to engage with an edge of said hanger, said latch having an end projecting through said. opening beyond said stake.

6. A device of the class described, comrising a pocket, a hanger within said pocket l iaving a laterally-disposed flange adapted to rest upon the top of said pocket and having an end projecting downwardly through said pocket, said end having a recess, a stake having lateral end arms and resting upon said hanger, a bail mounted upon said end arms and having a part within said recess, a pin securing said bail within said recess, and a catch pivoted upon said stake and having a shoulder adapted to abut against an edge of said hanger.

7. A device of the class described, comprising a pocket mounted upon a car, a

' anger within said pocket, a stake resting upon said pocket and having a pivotal connection with said hanger, said stake having an eye, a catch adapted to engage with said eye, and means for releasing said catch from an opposite side of the car.

8. In a device of the class described, a pocket mounted upon the side of a car, a hanger within said pocket, a stake resting upon said hanger and pivoted to the end thereof, said stake having an eye, a catch pivoted upon the car-body and having a 00k adapted to en age with said eye, a tugger adapted lateral y to displace said catch, and means for operating said trigger from an opposite side of the car. 9. A device of the class described, comprising a pocket mounted upon the side. of a car, a hanger within said pocket having an end projecting downwardly therethrough, a stake upon said pocket having a bail pivoted to the end of said hanger, said stake having an eye, a catch pivotally mounted upon the car and having a hook adapted to engage with said eye and an arm, a trigger mounted upon the car having a arm adapted to displace said first arm to disengage said hook from said eye, a spring holding said trigger in a normal position, and means for displacing said trigger from a normal position, said means being ada ted to be operated from an opposite side of t e car.

10. A car-body in combination" with a pivoted stake having a catch adapted to be operated at said stake and a second pivoted stake having a catch, and means for operating said second catch from an opposite side of said car, said catches being adapted for.

holding said stakes in upright position.

11. A car-body, in combination with a plurality of stakes pivoted to a side thereof and having catches adapted to hold said stakes in u right positions, said catches being adapted to be operated individually, and

a plurality of pivoted stakes having catches adapted to hold said stakes in upright positions, and means for simultaneously operating said second catches from an opposite side of said car.

12. In a car-body, a pocket, a stake pivoted in said pocket and having a latch adapted to be operated at said stake, a second pocket, a second stake pivoted in said second pocket and having a latch, and means for operating said second latch from an opposite side of the car. 7

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT WILLIAM BAGLEY.

Witnesses:

-B. STEWART,

H. W. STEWART. 

